Now here’s where it gets fuzzy. Or as we’re so apt to be reminded, here’s where the NCAA becomes the NCAA.

College football’s governing body says that “while the Oregon violations were not intentional in nature, many are significant and should not be considered inadvertent.”

You read that right. The NCAA says Oregon didn’t break rules intentionally, it’s just that those broken rules shouldn’t be considered inadvertent.

Have you ever, in your life, heard such inane gobbledygook?

How can this group, with who knows how many masters and doctorates and years of education filling up those secretive boardrooms, release such a statement? Is there not one person among that group; one person with the backbone to stand up and speak out against an organization of like minds, and say what should be said?

Isn’t there someone at the NCAA who can stand up and say, "Wait a second, this isn’t right"?

This isn’t right that we’re paying a convicted felon’s attorney to get information.

This isn’t right that a father can try to sell his son to the highest bidder, but his son can still play.

This isn’t right that Ohio State players can accept cash in envelopes four months after the NCAA begins a separate investigation for players receiving improper benefits, and the university doesn’t receive a lack of institutional control charge—despite that being the textbook definition of it.

Who in their right mind can sit in a meeting and decide, “Hey, I’ve got it— let’s say what Oregon did wasn’t intentional, but it wasn’t inadvertent, either!”?

It is here where we recap the main charge among Oregon’s NCAA transgressions: The university paid Houston-based street agent Willie Lyles 25 large for his bogus recruiting service, then sat back and waited and, whaddyaknow, the star player Lyles was “mentoring” signed with the Ducks.

In documents obtained by KATU, Oregon officials insist Lyles should not be considered a booster. The NCAA says he is, not because he got $25,000 for his recruiting service, but—get this—because Lyles’ recruiting service “did not disseminate the quarterly reports as required by legislation.”

If that makes you want to put a pencil through your head, listen to this: In the report, Oregon assistant coaches describe Lyles as a “human GPS” rather than “assisting in the recruitment of prospects when Lyles was visiting high schools at the same time.”

So, taking that into consideration; and taking into consideration that Oregon paid Lyles $25,000 for oral recruiting reports (when only written and video reports are permitted); and taking into consideration that Kelly asked Lyles for written reports after the NCAA began asking questions and Lyles responded with old, outdated material; and taking into consideration that Lache Seastrunk, the star player Lyles was mentoring, signed with Oregon, and other players from Texas on the Oregon roster were also connected to Lyles (including All-American LaMichael James); the NCAA decided that “there is no information in the record that Lyles coerced or directed any prospect to ultimately choose Oregon.”

Good grief, I want to puke.

Over and over again we hear the NCAA decry its lack of subpoena power in these investigations. Then we see this mockery of events after the NCAA is essentially gifted damning information.

If Oregon coaches really thought Lyles was a “human GPS” and not a street agent funneling players to Eugene, why did Kelly initially deny knowing Lyles when asked by The (Portland) Oregonian columnist Jon Canzano? Why did Kelly, after a Yahoo! report detailing Kelly’s relationship with Lyles, then tell Canzano the following day that he was confused by the name “Willie.”

“Around here, we call him ‘Will,’” Kelly told Canzano.

Willie or Will. Intentional or inadvertent.

Have you ever, in your life, seen such incriminating evidence become useless gobbledygook?